More bots

[Soulfien]

Names! This goes along with friend requests. The same websites are being made into names. Why? Because there's not a single thing preventing it. Filters are your friend. They require just a little bit of code and they prevent so very much. It's easy to code. I learned how to do it early in my coding class. Filters are your friend. If SE blocks names that are really URLs, they completely shut down the friend request bots.

Have a filter for tells: It's not difficult to determine what is and is not a bot advertising easy buying and selling of gil at stupidbotsite.com. In the MMO World of Warcraft, it was easy enough to filter that many people used an addon written by a third party that would automatically flag, block, and report all incoming bot tells. There was no reason to completely turn off tells like there is in this game. If a third party could do it for free, how easy would it be for a huge corporation like this one? Yeah...

[Soulfien]

Ban bot accounts: Yes, if you ban the entire account forcing them to continuously purchase new accounts, they'll go away! A simple report button that sends a copy of their last "tells" and "says" to the GMs should be all it takes to ban a bot's entire account.

If SE just did these few simple things, bots would almost completely disappear. I don't believe that they're doing everything they can or that bots are too difficult to detect. Hell, I can walk through town and "detect" 20 bots.